{"id":335002,"date":"2026-05-15T07:15:40","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T01:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=335002"},"modified":"2026-05-15T07:15:40","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T01:45:40","slug":"rumor-killer-teddy-long-not-returning-as-smackdown-general-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/05\/15\/rumor-killer-teddy-long-not-returning-as-smackdown-general-manager\/","title":{"rendered":"Rumor Killer &#8211; Teddy Long Not Returning As SmackDown General Manager"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_91\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p>A rumor recently surfaced claiming that Teddy Long would return because the General Manager of WWE SmackDown once the show moves back to a two-hour format this summer.<\/p>\n<p>Long addressed the speculation during an episode of his \u201cRoad Trippin\u201d podcast. He said,<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u201cI do not know. I do know nothing about it. WWE has not contacted me, called me, or anything. Whoever began that, I appreciate you excited about me, playa. I just start laughing because I do know that ain\u2019t going to occur.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u201cIt\u2019s not prefer it was once. There ain\u2019t no live events so I wouldn\u2019t be on the road, just do TV. I\u2019m at home, I sleep in my very own bed almost every night. I like going out and doing the signings. I just enjoy doing those and getting on the plane and going home. I\u2019m not certainly one of these guys that don\u2019t know when to take the cape off. I do know when to take the cape off. I had an amazing run, I ain\u2019t bitter a few thing. That ain\u2019t gonna occur, they ain\u2019t calling me.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Long served because the General Manager of SmackDown and ECW for nearly a decade starting in 2004.<\/p>\n<p><strong>NOTE:<\/strong> If you may have any news suggestions or podcast recaps that you simply\u2019d prefer to send in for us to post (full credit can be given to you), please email me at <span class=\"__cf_email__\" data-cfemail=\"f7a5b49b96859ca7a0a4b7ae969f9898d994989a\">[email\u00a0protected]<\/span>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A rumor recently surfaced claiming that Teddy Long would return because the General Manager of WWE SmackDown once the show moves back to a two-hour format this summer. Long addressed the speculation during an episode of his \u201cRoad Trippin\u201d podcast. He said, \u201cI do not know. I do know nothing about it. WWE has not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":335003,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[893,11626,2413,550,3019,1923,9262,21481],"class_list":["post-335002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-general","tag-killer","tag-long","tag-manager","tag-returning","tag-rumor","tag-smackdown","tag-teddy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335002"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":335005,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335002\/revisions\/335005"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}